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"&lt;p&gt;Even if you profess a deep like for Amanda Peet (I do) and Ashton Kutcher (the jury&amp;apos;s still out), seven years of them is a bit much. That&amp;apos;s what you get packed into two hours of &lt;em&gt;A Lot Like Love&lt;/em&gt;, which is a lot like a lot of other romantic comedies that make two lovers of friends (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/when-harry-met-sally-19890721\"&gt;When Harry Met Sally&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/serendipity-20010928\"&gt;Serendipity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) and a lot not like the two witty and wise Richard Linklater movies &amp;#x2014; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/before-sunrise-19950127\"&gt;Before Sunrise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/before-sunset-20040616\"&gt;Before Sunset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2014; that span the relationship between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy for nearly a decade and leave you wanting more.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Directed without personality by Nigel Cole (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/calendar-girl-19930903\"&gt;Calendar Girls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) from a killingly familiar script by Colin Patrick Lynch, the movie ambles backward in time,  ting seven years earlier when Oliver (Kutcher) and Emily (Peet) meet on a plane from Los Angeles to New York. She lures him into a toilet for a quickie. He reacts by wanting more. &amp;quot;Don&amp;apos;t ruin it,&amp;quot; she says, leaving to get involved with a lot of losers who dump her until she finds one (Jeremy Sisto) to dump herself. Oliver spends so much time building his dot-com diaper business that he finds only one woman to dump him. Between affairs, Oliver and Emily lick each other&amp;apos;s wounds and sometimes more than that &amp;#x2014; one night in the desert, Emily, now a photographer, takes a shot of them both naked standing on a rock. Is it art? I have my opinion. But as the film stopped counting back in years and switched to months, I panicked that it would slog on to weeks, hours and seconds before reaching its inevitable end. I was wrong. About &lt;em&gt;A Lot Like Love&lt;/em&gt; leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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